Aleksandr Kokorin

Alexander Kokorin in 2011

Alexander Alexandrovich Kokorin (Russian Александр Александрович Кокорин; * 19 March 1991 Waluiki, Soviet Union ) is a Russian football player at the position of a striker and winger.

After five years, the Russian first division side FK Dynamo Moscow, where he became a regular player, he moved in 2013 to the Dagestan club Anzhi Makhachkala. After the club announced austerity measures, Kokorin return in mid- August, in the same transfer window, to have denied without a competitive match for Anzhi, back to Moscow. He also followed Igor Denisov and Yuri Shirkov.

In 2011 he made ​​his senior international debut for Russia; In 2012, he was brought by team boss Dick Advocaat in the 23 -man squad of Russia in Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. On September 22, 2012 Kokorin scored his first international goal in a World Cup qualifier against Israel.